Aaron Wildavsky: Facts, Policies, Morals (Great Teachers in Our Lives) (The Revolt Against the Masses) (Book Review‪)‬

I I HAVE BEEN AN ADMIRER of Aaron Wildavsky for so long that when he died, a decade ago, I felt a personal injury--something akin to losing a limb. Just who would take up leadership of the intellectual defense of the common culture? I am surely not the only person to ask such an admittedly rhetorical question. He gave backbone to so many people in public life and in academic pursuits that the problem of Aaron not being among us was less the quality of his legacy--already assured--but the character of the remaining living. It was somehow always easier to be courageous knowing Aaron was in your corner. How would we fare with him gone?